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  • adjective vulgar Of a person who has a very difficult personality; a perfectionist.

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Examples

  • I especially liked Hans Brauer (Darby on Sons of Anarchy) as the supposedly hard-assed covert agent who folded like a little kid once he discovered This is Not a Game.

    Checkmate : Bev Vincent 2010

  • TV Doakes talks too much, and he ends up reminding me of about 275 other hard-assed cops.

    06 « October « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2008

  • An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.

    Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010

  • Her back straightened, her fingers tightened on the shotgun, and once again, I saw a glimmer of the hard-assed vampire that I remembered.

    Venom Jennifer Estep 2010

  • An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.

    Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010

  • TV Doakes talks too much, and he ends up reminding me of about 275 other hard-assed cops.

    I also watch too much television 2008

  • Back to Sherrie & Ellen: "When you do The Rules, he treats you like a fragile, delicate flower" -- even if you're a hard-assed CEO to the rest of the world!

    Jag Carrao: Bossy Bethenny, But Rulesy Bride 2010

  • An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.

    Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010

  • Her back straightened, her fingers tightened on the shotgun, and once again, I saw a glimmer of the hard-assed vampire that I remembered.

    Venom Jennifer Estep 2010

  • An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.

    Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010

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